Thursday, September 6, 2012

Android CheckBoxe Example

A checkbox is a specific type of two-states button that can be either checked or unchecked.
We will learn how to use checkbox in this tutorial.


Note: You should  know how to use Buttons and TextViews , if  you do not know then read this post  Using Buttons and TextViews in Android.

Create a new project.
Name your activity "CheckBoxActivity"


Editing main.xml file :


open main.xml file and  add TextViews, CheckBoxes and Buttons, it should like like below. (you can just copy the below code and paste in main.xml file)





main.xml


  <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

   
    
    
     <TextView
         android:text="Choose Your Hobies"
         android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         />

    
     <CheckBox
        android:id="@+id/chkReading"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Reading" />

    <CheckBox
        android:id="@+id/chkSong"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Listening Songs"
        android:checked="true" />

    <CheckBox
        android:id="@+id/chkPLay"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Playing" />
    
    <CheckBox
        android:id="@+id/chkSing"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Singing" />
    
    <CheckBox
        android:id="@+id/chkDance"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Dancing" />
    
    
     <TextView
         android:id="@+id/result"
         android:textSize="20dp"
         android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnDisplay"
        android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
        android:gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="        OK        " />

</LinearLayout>


Thing To Note

 android:checked="true"         you can initially checked any check box using this tag. see  in fig.
 " Listening Song" is already checked.

Editing CheckBoxActivity  file


CheckBoxActivity.java



       public class CheckBoxActivity extends Activity
       {

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
final TextView textHobbies=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.result);
// getting refference of check boxes
final CheckBox reading=(CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.chkReading);
final CheckBox playing=(CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.chkReading);
final CheckBox listening=(CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.chkPLay);
final CheckBox singing=(CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.chkSing);
final CheckBox dancing=(CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.chkDance);
// get reffrence of Button
Button button=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btnDisplay);
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
String hobbies="";
if(reading.isChecked())
hobbies+="Reading";
if(playing.isChecked())
hobbies+="  Playing";
if(listening.isChecked())
hobbies+="  Listening Music";
if(singing.isChecked())
hobbies+="  Singing";
if(dancing.isChecked())
hobbies+="  Dancing";
 textHobbies.setText("Your Hobbies are : "+hobbies) ;
}
});
}

    
    }

Point to Note:

checkBoxObject.isChecked();
isChecked() method returns true if the checkBox is checked , and false otherwise.

Now run your project , do some activity(check or unceck checkboxes)
You will see the following.



Hope you learned and enjoyed
Comments and questions are welcome

                                      



3 comments:

  1. Hello sir, your tutorial is great. but i have one query that i have arraylist which i have populated into listview and one customadapter class where using getview method i set. i.e eachrow has one textview and checkbox. i want to do when checkbox is clicked or checked corresponding textview is removed.i.e list.remove(position) so, how can i get checkbox position into listview . thanks.

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  2. how to pass the above result to another activity

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